Q&A: Andrew's right royal mess, continued
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
First Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested, then Peter Mandelson. The fallout has been swift, dramatic, and is still unfolding. Hosts Manveen Rana and Luke Jones answer your biggest questions about the two men and what comes next.
Neither men have been changed and they both deny any wrongdoing. We don’t know what evidence was used in their arrests.
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Hosts: Manveen Rana & Luke Jones.
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| 0:39.3 | From The Times in the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. And I'm Manvien-Rana. And they've led us into a studio again together. Back together at last. It is the last Thursday of the month. So we're going to do another Q&A like we did. It's a reunion tour. Well, actually, it's been quite a good time for it as well, hasn't it? Because it's been lots going on, lots of chaotic matters around the world, but also at home. The news certainly hasn't calmed down. I'd love it to just stop for a moment. Yes. Give us a holiday, but no, there's plenty to talk about. We have had in the past month or so, just to refresh you, we've had more threats against Iran. We have had Kirstarmer's premiership, get to the precipice, look over the edge, as I think Ed Miliband said, and then teeter back over it, and then of course the whole to do with Peter |
| 0:44.2 | Mandelson and the former Prince Andrew. The release of the Epstein files and a chaotic time |
| 0:50.6 | stateside. We've just had a state of the union address. |
| 0:55.9 | Almost two hours. Almost two hours. Which I think is what we're going for. |
| 1:00.1 | Don't worry. I promise it won't last that long. Switch us off if it does. |
| 1:04.7 | But do get in touch any time. If you've got any questions, the story at the times.com is how to |
| 1:09.1 | get in touch with questions or even with just your |
| 1:11.9 | own view of things that we're that we're talking about today though we're going to look at |
| 1:15.6 | your questions relating to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Peter Mandelson the story today |
| 1:21.1 | your questions answered let's get into Andrew. |
| 1:31.0 | One of the biggest responses we've had has been on Andrew, Mountbatten Windsor. |
| 1:35.6 | We've had emails from people saying, |
| 1:38.3 | The Age of Hiding behind Wealth Must End. |
| 1:42.0 | Chilling and unfortunately, so unsurprising. And this actually is quite a rare |
| 1:47.1 | space in the Times stable for discussion about this because we should explain there's been a bit |
| 1:52.0 | of upset in various inboxes about why the comments have been turned off on the Times online articles |
| 1:58.4 | relating to Prince Andrew. I know you're in charge of all matters digital. |
| 2:02.7 | Why is that? He says that because I don't know how to use my email. We should explain. This isn't in any way |
| 2:09.3 | censorship or deference to the royal family. It's only because in both the cases of Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, |
| 2:16.6 | and Peter Mandelson, there are now live |
| 2:18.7 | investigations. arrests have been made, which does restrict how much we can say, and this will be |
| 2:25.0 | a bit of a legal minefield, but also it makes it very hard to have comments open because the |
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